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Sissinghurst, An Unfinished History: The Quest to Restore a Working Farm - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780670021734
- Book Title
- Sissinghurst, an Unfinished History : The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, Travel, Gardening, Social Science
- Topic
- Environmental Conservation & Protection, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, Agriculture / General, Sociology / Rural
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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A bestselling author's passionate memoir about restoring life to one of the world's greatest gardens Sissinghurst Castle is a jewel in the English countryside. Its chief attraction is its celebrated garden, designed in the 1930s by the poet Vita Sackville-West, lover of Virginia Woolf. As a boy, Adam Nicolson, Sackville-West's grandson, spent his days romping through Sissinghurst's woods, streams, and fields. In this book, he returns to the place of his bucolic youth and finds that the estate, now operated by Britain's National Trust, has lost something precious. It is still unquestionably a place of calm and beauty but, he asks, where is the working farm, the orchards, the cattle and sheep? Nicolson convinces the Trust to embrace a simple idea: Grow lunch for the two hundred thousand annual visitors. Sissinghurst is a personal biography of a place and an inspiring story of one man's quest to return a remarkable landscape to its best, most useful purpose. Nicolson is an entertaining and charming writer and this book will capture fans of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle .
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670021733
ISBN-13
9780670021734
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79833082
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sissinghurst, an Unfinished History : The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, Agriculture / General, Sociology / Rural
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Travel, Gardening, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"In his quest to restore his family home of Sissinghurst to its rightful place as a working farm and productive part of the England's food web, Nicolson creates a flawless narrative of enchantment, a bricolage of impermeable clay, crumbling castles, tucked away wildwoods, civic inertia, medieval history and a haunting childhood, as magical a work of art as his grandmother Vita Sackville-West's white garden." -Paul Hawken, Author of Blessed Unrest and The Ecology of Commerce "To see Vita Sackville-West's legendary garden return to life as an edible landscape fills me with hope. Adam Nicolson's determination to restore a working farm in complete harmony with one of the world's most famous and beautiful gardens is faithful not only to the memory of his family but also to the memory of the land itself. Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History has all the elements of a wonderful drama, but ultimately its message about the importance of good stewardship of the land and of nourishing the community prevails. It is clear that like his famous grandmother, Nicolson is a scribe of The Land." -Alice Waters, Founder of Chez Panisse and Author of The Art of Simple Food and many Chez Panisse cookbooks "This wise and tender book, unsentimentally devoted to the story of one tiny corner of old England, should touch each one of us who loves the wild magic that is land, landscape and the creatures that live there. On one level Sissinghurst is a charming portrait of an ancient and beautiful house in Kent; on another a poignant and amusing portrait of the English class system at full gallop. Most important, though, it is a clarion call for the preservation of all that is good, sensible and environmentally prudent about the farming ways of old, a cry that will linger for a long, long while." -Simon Winchester, Author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map that Changed the World , and Krakatoa Praise from the UK for Sissinghurst "Unusual, impassioned and lucidly written." - Sunday Telegraph "Excellent...A clear-eyed picture." - Guardian "A wonderful book." - Financial Times "An expert at conveying the 'stuff' of place, [Adam] Nicolson is equally good with people...As Nicolson understands, places tell us about the people who walked them and the dreams they pursued." - Times Literary Supplement, "In his quest to restore his family home of Sissinghurst to its rightful place as a working farm and productive part of the England's food web, Nicolson creates a flawless narrative of enchantment, a bricolage of impermeable clay, crumbling castles, tucked away wildwoods, civic inertia, medieval history and a haunting childhood, as magical a work of art as his grandmother Vita Sackville-West's white garden." -Paul Hawken, Author of Blessed Unrestand The Ecology of Commerce "To see Vita Sackville-West's legendary garden return to life as an edible landscape fills me with hope. Adam Nicolson's determination to restore a working farm in complete harmony with one of the world's most famous and beautiful gardens is faithful not only to the memory of his family but also to the memory of the land itself. Sissinghurst: An Unfinished Historyhas all the elements of a wonderful drama, but ultimately its message about the importance of good stewardship of the land and of nourishing the community prevails. It is clear that like his famous grandmother, Nicolson is a scribe of The Land." -Alice Waters, Founder of Chez Panisse and Author of The Art of Simple Foodand many Chez Panisse cookbooks "This wise and tender book, unsentimentally devoted to the story of one tiny corner of old England, should touch each one of us who loves the wild magic that is land, landscape and the creatures that live there. On one level Sissinghurstis a charming portrait of an ancient and beautiful house in Kent; on another a poignant and amusing portrait of the English class system at full gallop. Most important, though, it is a clarion call for the preservation of all that is good, sensible and environmentally prudent about the farming ways of old, a cry that will linger for a long, long while." -Simon Winchester, Author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map that Changed the World, and Krakatoa Praise from the UK for Sissinghurst "Unusual, impassioned and lucidly written." -Sunday Telegraph "Excellent...A clear-eyed picture." -Guardian "A wonderful book." -Financial Times "An expert at conveying the 'stuff' of place, [Adam] Nicolson is equally good with people...As Nicolson understands, places tell us about the people who walked them and the dreams they pursued." -Times Literary Supplement, "In his quest to restore his family home of Sissinghurst to its rightful place as a working farm and productive part of the England''s food web, Nicolson creates a flawless narrative of enchantment, a bricolage of impermeable clay, crumbling castles, tucked away wildwoods, civic inertia, medieval history and a haunting childhood, as magical a work of art as his grandmother Vita Sackville-West''s white garden." -Paul Hawken, Author of Blessed Unrest and The Ecology of Commerce "To see Vita Sackville-West''s legendary garden return to life as an edible landscape fills me with hope. Adam Nicolson''s determination to restore a working farm in complete harmony with one of the world''s most famous and beautiful gardens is faithful not only to the memory of his family but also to the memory of the land itself. Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History has all the elements of a wonderful drama, but ultimately its message about the importance of good stewardship of the land and of nourishing the community prevails. It is clear that like his famous grandmother, Nicolson is a scribe of The Land." -Alice Waters, Founder of Chez Panisse and Author of The Art of Simple Food and many Chez Panisse cookbooks "This wise and tender book, unsentimentally devoted to the story of one tiny corner of old England, should touch each one of us who loves the wild magic that is land, landscape and the creatures that live there. On one level Sissinghurst is a charming portrait of an ancient and beautiful house in Kent; on another a poignant and amusing portrait of the English class system at full gallop. Most important, though, it is a clarion call for the preservation of all that is good, sensible and environmentally prudent about the farming ways of old, a cry that will linger for a long, long while." -Simon Winchester, Author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map that Changed the World , and Krakatoa Praise from the UK for Sissinghurst "Unusual, impassioned and lucidly written." - Sunday Telegraph "Excellent...A clear-eyed picture." - Guardian "A wonderful book." - Financial Times "An expert at conveying the ''stuff'' of place, [Adam] Nicolson is equally good with people...As Nicolson understands, places tell us about the people who walked them and the dreams they pursued." - Times Literary Supplement
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2009-050258
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630.9422/38
Lc Classification Number
Sb466.G8n53 2010
Copyright Date
2010
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